Purchased at Asahikawa Station souvenir shop
Soft to the taste and dry aftertaste.
A fine cup that can be drunk easily and smoothly.
Polar bears are so cute...
Yesterday, I flew from Haneda to Kushiro and took a rental car to Kitami🚗.
On the way to Kitami, we stopped by the start of the road to heaven in Shari-cho, and went to Kitami via Abashiri station.
In the evening, we enjoyed local salted yakisoba noodles and went to Otokoyama in the room. ‼️
The aroma was very clean and lingered in the nose 😋.
Rice: Yamadanishiki
Rice polishing ratio: 58% Sake meter: - Acidity: - Amino acidity: - Alcoholic strength: 15
Hello, Manachie. Kushiro-Kitami and many of the roads were long straight lines, but the roads leading to heaven, especially the starting point, were breathtaking. It must be nice to ride on a motorcycle 🏍️ ‼️
Purchased at a convenience store on a business trip to Sapporo. To be honest, I did not expect it to be as good as I thought it would be. The aroma is restrained and the flavor is robust. It was a nice and refreshing drink.
I was very pleased with the taste.
Itami is located in the eastern part of Hyogo Prefecture, where sake brewing was prosperous for a long time until Nada took its place. Here, there used to be a sake brewery called "Kiwenya Yamamoto Honke" that wholesaled sake called "Gomenzake" for the shogunate. The brand name of this sake was "Otokoyama," and it is said that the name was derived from the mountain where Ishimizu Hachiman Shrine is located in Yawata City in the southern part of Kyoto and the area around the shrine, called Otokoyama. However, the cotton shop apparently went out of business at the end of the Edo period (1603-1867). About 100 years later, Yamazaki Shuzo, which opened a brewery in Asahikawa, officially took over the Otokoyama brand from a descendant of Kiwamaya. Yamamoto Honke Brewery in Kyoto does not seem to be related to Otokoyama.
It is a sparkling sake with added carbonation, but the bitterness of the carbonation is not so noticeable. It is a sweet and sour sake, but it is more on the sweet side. It is a sweet and sour sake, but it is more on the sweet side.
The label looks like it says "sake," but upon closer inspection, it could also be "bubbles" that resemble the word "sake," which is clever!
After the strong sweetness, there is a strong sake taste and bitterness. The mouthfeel is thick and mellow and quite tasty. It went well with Genghis Khan.
However, because of the added sugar, it is treated as a liqueur, not sake.
